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Akihiko SATO, Ph.D.
Aki has been thinking sociologically, espcially about...
- drug use, drug policy and modernization
- crime, criminal justice and modernization
- relationship between medicine and criminology
- qualitative research methods and discourse analysis
- sociological thoughts and modernization of discourses
Relevant fields and diciplines:
- sociology
- sociology of deviance, sociology of crime
- sociology of medicine, sociology of scientific knowledge
- social inteaction and language use
- Chicago school of sociology
- Symbolic interactionism
- Discourse analysis
- Discursive psychology
Educational Background:
- Ph.D., Kyoto University, Literature, 2005
- M.A., Kyoto University, Sociology, 1995
- B.A., Kyoto University, Philosophy, 1990
Academic Positions and etc.:
- Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Letters (Department of Integrated Humanities), Kumamoto University, Japan (current)
- (as an additional post) Professor of Sociology, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences (Division of Public Policy and Society), Kumamoto University, Japan (current)
- Visiting Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK: 2000-2001
- Editorial staff, Shinchosha Publishing Company (Tokyo, Japan): 1990-1992
